Chapter 1 Test

Front 1

creation mandate

Back 1

a command that includes the idea that people should fill the earth and study it to discover the best way to use it

Front 2

world view

Back 2

the overall perspective that we use to see and interperet the world

Front 3

presumption

Back 3

ideas that are not proven to be true but that we assume to be true

Front 4

sediments

Back 4

small particles of eroded material such as rock, soil, sand, or clay

Front 5

model

Back 5

explains, describes, or represent something in the world (arent always visual) (models=data)

Front 6

bing bang theory

Back 6

a popular secular cosmology that the universe began with something like a gigantic explosian

Front 7

hypothesis

Back 7

an initial explanation for a problem

Front 8

theory

Back 8

models that scientist use as framework

Front 9

laws

Back 9

models that describe the differetn way kind of measurable physical quantities relate to each other

Front 10

why do all objects exert a gravitational force on all other objects

Back 10

bc they contain matter

Front 11

measured data

Back 11

when they measure something they collect this

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data

Back 12

something known or asumed to be true. any info. scientist collect by observing this

Front 13

descriptive data

Back 13

when scientist observe and write descriptions of their observation they collect this

Front 14

derived data

Back 14

sometimes scientist take their data and analyze it to produce this

Front 15

science

Back 15

the collection of observaton, explanations, and models produced through an organized study of nature and the proccesses found in nature , for the purposes of enabling people to exercise good and wise domonion over gods world

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dominion science

Back 16

science done to accomplish the biblical dominion

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earth science

Back 17

the knowledge and organized methods of observing the earth and its process using appropriate tools

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scientific process

Back 18

seperates science from nearly all other human activities

Front 19

cocontrolled expirement

Back 19

allows the scientist to vary only one factor at a time in order to see how that factors affect the things he is studying

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the scientific process

Back 20

-forming a scientific question

-conducting initial research

-stating a hypothosis

-collecting data

-analyzing data

-drawing conclusions

-publishing results